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SK Hynix Banks on Toshiba Purchase for NAND Memory Technology

SK Hynix Banks on Toshiba Purchase for NAND Memory Technology

SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – As Toshiba seems to have finally decided to sell its chip-making unit to a group including SK Hynix, attention is being paid to the motivation behind the South Korean chipmaker’s months-long battle to reach a deal with the Japanese conglomerate’s troubled memory business. After months of back and forth, Reuters [...]

Samsung Begins World’s First Mass-production of 256-gigabit V-NAND Chips

Samsung Begins World’s First Mass-production of 256-gigabit V-NAND Chips

SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics said Tuesday it has begun to mass-produce 256-gigabit (Gb) vertical NAND flash memory chips, making the company the first in the world to have succeeded in manufacturing the storage component in its largest capacity available. The vertical NAND flash, also known as V-NAND, [...]

Samsung Starts Mass Production of High-end Flash Memory for Smartphones

Samsung Starts Mass Production of High-end Flash Memory for Smartphones

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s tech giant Samsung Electronics said Thursday it has started mass production of an upgraded flash memory chip for smartphones with a high speed and a high capacity, which will help mobile devices run more stable. Samsung claimed that the 128GB Universal Flash Storage (UFS) for smartphones is an industry first, [...]

Samsung Introduces New Branded SSD Powered by 3D V-NAND

Samsung Introduces New Branded SSD Powered by 3D V-NAND

SEOUL, South Korea, June 30, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, today launched the 850 PRO, a new solid state drive (SSD) line-up featuring Samsung’s cutting-edge three-dimensional (3D) vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory technology. The new Samsung 850 PRO, unveiled at the 2014 Samsung SSD Global Summit in [...]